John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 10 blogs containing over 8000 articles with John having written over 4000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 16 million times. John also manages Healthcare IT Central and Healthcare IT Today, the leading career Health IT job board and blog. John is co-founder of InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can also be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit and LinkedIn.

Yesterday I started testing out a new idea where I’d film some original EMR and EHR videos where I answer questions about healthcare IT and EMR that people have sent to me. I’ll post the first video here and possibly another one this weekend. Then, I’ll probably start posting the videos on my new EMR and EHR video website. Although, I may do some updates with links to the latest videos that are posted.

It’s a low budget production as you can imagine. I also was streaming it live on the internet, so you’ll see me look down a number of times to check how many were viewing it live. Those things aside, hopefully you’ll find the content of the video interesting and useful.

This first video tries to answer the question:Does the EMR allow data sharing with the patient’s PHR and/or Social Net account(s)?

As always, I’m interested to hear your thoughts on the subject as well. Was there anything I missed? Was I wrong about anything? What else is important about EMR data sharing? Should we be able to share our EMR data with social networks like Facebook, Twitter, etc?

Also, if you have other questions you’d like me to answer in a future video, be sure to leave a comment or let me know on the contact us page.

I completely understand how social networking sites are not the best outlets for personal health information to be displayed. Even if it became possible to do, most doctors would not want to authorize it to be displayed there due to fear of some type of future legal consequences against their medical practice.

Interesting comment about physician liability. Although, I’d expect that most of the data would be put on those networks by the patient. So, the doctor shouldn’t be liable. Although, if it came from the EMR, you never know I guess.